SEPTIC CUTANEOUS LESIONS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM-MALMOENSE IN A PATIENT WITH HAIRY-CELL LEUKEMIA

Authors
CASTOR B JUHLIN I HENRIQUES B
Citation
B. Castor et al., SEPTIC CUTANEOUS LESIONS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM-MALMOENSE IN A PATIENT WITH HAIRY-CELL LEUKEMIA, European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases, 13(2), 1994, pp. 145-148
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Immunology,Microbiology
Journal title
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
09349723
Volume
13
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
145 - 148
Database
ISI
SICI code
0934-9723(1994)13:2<145:SCLCBM>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Patients with hairy cell leukemia seem to be prone to infections with mycobacteria. This report describes a patient with hairy cell leukemia and pulmonary infection as well as disseminated cutaneous infection c aused by Mycobacterium malmoense cultured from sputum and skin scrapin gs on Loewenstein-Jensen medium in eight weeks. Despite multiresistanc e of the causative strain, the infection was successfully treated with ethambutol, cycloserine and isoniazid.